When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
LILY TOMLINMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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